A Good Day for a Walk (and an Even Better Cup of Coffee)
The 2025 Down Syndrome Awareness Walk (aka the Buddy Walk) at Belmont Park might’ve been cold and gray, but you wouldn’t have known it by the smiles. Our crew – Team Downs for a Good Time – showed up big again this year to walk for Teighan, my stepdaughter, and for every family out there living and loving life with Down syndrome.
The Dopamine Drop – September 2025
AI is everywhere. It promises productivity, creativity, and shortcuts to a better life. But if you have ADHD, there’s a catch: AI doesn’t just give you answers – it hands you a stack of shiny new doors to open. That’s where ADHD and AI rabbit holes become a real problem.
The Dopamine Drop Newsletter – August 2025
You don’t need a comeback story. You just need five minutes of clarity before September shows up with a clipboard and a guilt trip.
August is the Sunday of the year – except sweatier and full of half-finished shit giving you side-eye.
If you’re like me, the ADHD fall transition can feel like a panic attack in slow motion. But the trick isn’t to overhaul your life. It’s just to lighten the load a little before it starts rolling downhill like shit always does.
The Dopamine Drop – July 2025
Summer should feel like a break. But for a lot of us with ADHD, it’s something else entirely: overstimulating, unstructured, and exhausting. If you’re dealing with ADHD summer burnout, you’re not broken – you’re overheating.
The Dopamine Drop – June 2025
If your brain feels like a junk drawer – full of half-finished thoughts, guilt-flavored to-dos, and weird emotional receipts – this one’s for you. This is mental spring cleaning for ADHD minds. Let’s dump the clutter and find some clarity.
10 Ways To Know You Were Raised By A Boomer
Look, this isn’t a parent-bashing post. I love my parents dearly and I’m sure you do too. It’s simply a pattern-recognition post. But, if you were raised by boomer parents, chances are you’ve internalized a few things that made survival feel more important than self-expression.